From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Ficheux Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 09:01:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Buildroot] RPi In-Reply-To: <20140521180435.GA3556@free.fr> Message-ID: <731900685.15108515.1400742119060.JavaMail.root@openwide.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi, The script doesn't need to bee root. It creates SD image from VFAT + EXT3 partitions created by Buildroot (see attached) I think it's a good way to start BR on RPi, quite simple. regards ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Yann E. MORIN" > ?: "Pierre Ficheux" > Cc: "buildroot" > Envoy?: Mercredi 21 Mai 2014 20:04:35 > Objet: Re: [Buildroot] RPi > > Pierre, All, > > (He! The same usual suspects! ;-) ) > > On 2014-05-21 14:05 +0200, Pierre Ficheux spake thusly: > > I did some work on BR around Raspberry Pi platform: > > > > - adding a post-image script for RP SD-card image generation > > (adapted > > from Yocto RPi recipe) > > - adding BR support for Adafruit touchscreen -> > > https://www.adafruit.com/products/1601 > > > > I don't know if it could help, but I can build patches. > > For the RPi script, I have to admit I'm a bit sceptic. We usually > document, as much as we can, the preparation of media for the boards > (you can see the one for the RPi in boards/raspberrypi/readme) but we > usually do not provide such scripts. > > The only board we're currently doing it for, is the cubieboard, and > it > IMHO has quite a few shortcomings: > - requires being root > - uses host-tools without enabling them in the defconfig > - makes some heavy assumptions on the layout (generated files and > medium) > - does not handle all failure modes > - is (a bit) convoluted > > Also, I'm a bit warry at providing such a root-requiring script, as > it > is so easy to bork things on an unsuspecting user's machine. I for > one > would not run such a script to begin with. > > I highly prefer we provide a good documentation on how to generate > basic > media for a board, and redirect the user to the upstream > documentation > (if it exists.) > > We've tried to have a generic infrastructure that would generate > images > for any board, without any hard-coded layout or the likes), but it > turns > to not be so easy. Such an infra would have to cover all comon cases, > but also weird corner-cases, where the layout is not simply a > collection > of partitions laid out on some media (think initramfs with part of > the > VFS mounted from a block device, it's not easy.) > > Others may disagree on the above, so please provide your script, so > we > can see and decide on actual code. ;-) > > As for the touchscreen support, that would be very interesting, > indeed! > Please send your patch! :-) > > Regards, > Yann E. MORIN. > > -- > .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. > | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' > | conspiracy: | > | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ > | | > | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ > | There is no | > | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v > | conspiracy. | > '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------' > -- Pierre FICHEUX -/- CTO OW/OWI, France -\- pierre.ficheux at openwide.fr http://ingenierie.openwide.fr http://www.linuxembedded.fr I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: build_sdcard.sh Type: application/x-shellscript Size: 3990 bytes Desc: not available URL: